Bored at work

ISBB

Does anyone need a talented Network Specialist... IM am FREAKIN Bored where i work im looking to relocate anywhere in so cal or pheonix for a job that will keep me busy and learning new things.. If u can help i got 5 gal of race gas for ya..

YAMAKAZE

Hang in there Brother, I manage several Lans and a boat load of remotes, and everything is slow. Almost everybody I know in the Networking arena is in the same situation, even the desktop break-fix guys are begining to resemble the Maytag Repairman....Things will pick up, everything runs in cycles in the IT Community...

Most of us are using this lull in the action to work on the latest certifications...If you need some training material PM me and I'll give you my business e-mail address.

ISBB

i usually get the phone calls this dont work taht dont work cuz i got craploads of retards for users on my network... now its like ok we finally fired all the incompetint ones... cool but what the hell do i do with my time now... so i just sit and talk bout my bike and the desert and glamis and all that fun stuff ya know.... I want to make it to a job maybe installing networks or troubleshooting them or something to give me something to do even if its digging ditches on the side man... i hate bieng bored

YAMAKAZE

During the past year most of the "Paper Tigers" or "Paper MCSE's" have been weeded out, Engineers and Technicians with solid backgrounds and experience are still in demand.

It looks like the end of the down turn is in site now that the majority of those phoney bologna internet startups and fake companies are almost completely gone.

The good news is that it's been 3 complete hardware cycles and 2 Operating System cycles since the Y2K upgrades. This summer and Fall companies are going to start replacing their out of date hardware and upgrade their operating systems. That's going to mean jobs for qualified Technicians and Engineers.

ISBB

ITS About time... i got 8 years under me and im only 20 go finger... but its fun. I started at a local shop when i was tweleve then moved my way up to the bank where i have been for a while... YAY huh... as soon as i graduated i got my full time job with the credit union.. now im bored cuz everything runs right... something has got to be wrong cuz microsoft stuff never runs right.. where did i screw up...

armourbl

I worked at a help desk for a major bank before my current gig. I can without a doubt say that bank employees are the dumbest users on the planet. Makes me scared to keep my money in the bank, so I just spend it all on bike stuff...LOL

me "Ok, can you reboot your computer for me?"

user "I rebooted it 3 times already, but the same screen just keeps appearing! I'm so tired of dealing with you people, can you just send someone out to fix it?"

me "Ma'am, the computer is not the "T.V." thing, it is the box on the floor...." MAN!!!!!

ISBB

U nailed it man
and actually im not tooo bad off... Im in the process of my CCNA and MCP gonna get my MCSE shortly.. already have a+ and net+ and a HTCIA cert for security...
and yes the users here are FREAKIN MORONS....

ME "how can i help U"
User "how do i do this"
me "explains it to her"

10 min later

RING RING

User "i forgot how to do it can u show me again"

ME- biting my lip and help her then when she gets off the phone.. then start cussin and screamin and kickin crap down the hallway muttering stupid users..

S_Phillips

Dodger

Hey, I feel for ya ISBB, got my CCNA last December. Guess what, I'm still doing settlement for a start up company that seems to be going no where.

I really love to work with networks, got a real nice one in my house, but I can only do so much with it. Sometimes end up "breaking" it, just so I can re-fix it, now that is pathetic.

Hey Mike Olichney, don't know if you remember talking with me last June'ish, was one of those guys who bought a bike from CO Powersports that wouldn't make it around the block on a plug. I'll let you know if I happen to stumble upon a couple networking jobs around Boulder here.

Let's see if we can get us poor, network literate, motoriders some jobs!!

YAMAKAZE

jamracing

I used to contract at Sprint in Florida, did software distribution and level III helpdesk.
We had an office of about 30 users that had their monitors replaced due to unknown failures. After the 20th monitor failing, we found the culprit. Turned out the monitors were a great heating element for making toast. After enough crumbs dropping into there, short circuit city!